muhammad morsi gets to decide what the law is. he's the executive and the legislature in egypt. so he gets to issue amendments to the temporary constitution that governs egypt, and that's what he's done so far. there are a bunch of people that are supposed to be writing a more permanent charter, but they've been selected by an islamist dominated parliament that's now dissolved. so the liberals are feeling that the constitution writing process is not going in the direction that will produce something that all egyptians want. so they have found that their closest ally in the apparatus of the state is this judiciary. so the judiciary has taken steps through this post revolutionary period to limit morsi's power and his declaration is basically an attempt to say listen, stop this, i'm in charge, and i'm going to determine how the process goes from here on out. >> you've done your academic work on the muslim brotherhood. my sense is that you've spent a lot of time there and met morsi. >> a bunch of times. >> has morsi's development as a leader -- to me, there's a putinesque quality. p